Yet another version of the legendary prototype can be seen here. Except
the one thing that set the prototype apart from the production figure is
missing. There is no firing mechanism in this piece. The spring and slider
were never assembled into this figure thus leaving it an empty shell. This
figure is the same in all other ways to the standard L-Slot figure and as with all L-slot
RocketFetts, this figure is lacking copyright dates on the legs.

While it seems counter-productive for Kenner to create figures without
the mechanism, figures like this could have been used just to test the assembly
of all the regular figure parts. They could use this to check that the
torso seams fit together snugly and that the limbs and head would be tight.
At any rate it's still neat to see another slight variation of the RocketFett
here even though he looks a bit naked.

Contrary to popular belief, the rocket-firing feature was not removed from the figure because a child choked on and died from a Battlestar Galactica toy missile. You can read all about it here.